What are the hardware requirements for Zeta 0.5B?

Zeta 0.5B requires approximately 1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Zeta 0.5B and how large is it?

Zeta 0.5B is developed by ryanskidmore, a model with 7b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Zeta 0.5B?

Zeta 0.5B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Zeta 0.5B by ryanskidmore — VRAM 1GB, 32K context

Name: Zeta 0.5B
Author: ryanskidmore

Zeta 0.5B is an open-source language model by ryanskidmore. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 1GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.18.

Base model:finetune:ryanskidmo... Base model:ryanskidmore/zeta-s... Dpo En Endpoints compatible Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors Trl Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ryanskidmore/zeta-0.5B

Zeta 0.5B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Zeta 0.5B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ryanskidmore/zeta-0.5B
Base Model(s)	Zeta Sft ryanskidmore/zeta-sft
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	1 GB
Updated	2026-07-26
Maintainer	ryanskidmore
Model Type	qwen2
Model Files	1.0 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.51.3
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|PAD_TOKEN\|>
Vocabulary Size	152064
Torch Data Type	float16
Errors	replace

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